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<p>[quote user="daveklepper"]</p> <p>Agreed, a frequent NY - Chhicago 10-hour service could not make it on NY-Chicago passsengers alone. But with 125 mph top speed, good maintenance and good timekeeping, and service leaving NY and Chicago every two hours from 6AM to 2 pm running through, with 4, 6, and 6 pm departures from both ends running to Buffalo only, and 6, 8, and 10 AM departures in both directions from Buffalo, the corridor could be viable, not because of NY - Chicago business alone, but because of reliable short corridor service between the stations in between, such as Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, and the points on the current Empire service. Whether or not an overnight train with sleeper service would continue to be operated or not would depend on the overall economics. With the day train schedule in place, an experiment might be tried with a sleeper leaving on the 6pm to Buffalo, then attached to the 6AM departure from Buffalo to Chicago, giving an 17 hour trip with 6.5 hours spent sitting in Buffalo, and the reverse. It would represent an upgraded, extended, and near state of the art expansion of the present Empire Service between NY and Buffalo, where a majority of riders are not end-to-end. </p> <p><em>I would bet a majority of the existing Lake Shore's riders are not end-to-end today!</em> [/quote]</p> <p>I am not sure about the Lake Shore Limited, but approximately 10 per cent of the long distance train riders west of Chicago ride end point to end point. For the CZ, last time I looked, it was approximately five per cent.</p> <p>If the market you describe between Chicago and New York existed, the CSX or a group of venture capitalists would step forward and take advantage of the opportunity. The hard fact is the market is not there, and it is not likely to be there in the near future.</p>
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